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Quotes About Recapture

In January 1995 three prisoners, two category 'A' prisoners and a lifer escaped from Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight. After four days of freedom they were recaptured. My length of freedom far surpassed theirs.
~ Stephen Richards
Though he knew the Japanese would attack the Aleutians, he had refused to divert the bulk of his forces from the main event north of Midway. He had been content to concede the loss of the westernmost islands in the Aleutians archipelago, knowing they offered little value as military assets and could be recaptured in good time.
~ Ian W. Toll
Life should be continually brighter. We are continually seeking our own innocence. We want to recapture it for eternity. It's in there, but we lose touch with it.
~ Frederick Lenz
President Franklin Pierce, determined to demonstrate the federal government's resolve to enforce the act, dispatched 2,000 soldiers to Boston to recapture a single fugitive.
~ Timothy Sandefur
He risked a glance at the aft-vision display. The other fighter was coming up fast, with no more than a minute or two separating the two ships. Obviously, the pilot had far more experience with the craft than Luke had. That, or else such a fierce determination to recapture Luke that it completely overrode normal commonsense caution. Either way, it meant Mara Jade.
~ Timothy Zahn
Ganin now tried to recapture that scent again, mixed with the fresh smells of the autumnal park, but, as we know, memory can restore to life everything except smells, although nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Trying to recapture his youth. He should have known that nature bowed to no one, regardless of their monetary worth.
~ David Baldacci
A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of art.
~ Terry Teachout
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
~ Al Bernstein
During the one minute of wakefulness after his head meets the pillow, he wonders not who he once was, not why that life is behind him and beyond recapture, not what organization finances him and crafts his missions. He wonders only how he was made into what he has become. Strange science must be involved, which intrigues him. Sleep.
~ Dean Koontz
And so it is with our own past. It is a labour in vain to attempt to recapture it: all the efforts of our intellect must prove futile. The past is hidden somewhere outside the realm, beyond the reach of intellect, in some material object (in the sensation which that material object will give us) of which we have no inkling. And it depends on chance whether or not we come upon this object before we ourselves must die.
~ Marcel Proust
I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies.
~ Anne Frank
Sleep is divine but by no means stable; the slightest shock makes it volatile. A friend to habit, it is kept night after night in tis appointed place by habit, more steadfast than itself, protected from any possible disturbance; but if it is displaced, if it is no longer subjugated, it melts away like a vapour. It is like youth and love, never to be recaptured.
~ Marcel Proust
In that great game of hide and seek which is played in our memory when we seek to recapture a name, there is not any series of gradual approximations. We see nothing, then suddenly the name appears in its exact form and very different from what we thought we could make out.
~ Marcel Proust
I look around for the counter that sells my scent, but I'm so petrified that if I spray it in the air, nothing will come out. And then Mia's scent seems to fade away and everything else fades away with it and I know that all I have to do to recapture it is press the spray button again.
~ Melina Marchetta
The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture
~ Norman Mailer
In all the world one may always hope to recapture something lost.
~ Patti Smith
The fourth noble truth states that, once you have identified the cause of your suffering, you must find an appropriate path. I believe that the exercises I've developed and that you'll be learning in the Twelve-Phase Healing Trauma Program can serve as the path to lead you out of suffering and help you recapture the simple wonders of life.
~ Peter A. Levine
To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost.
~ Peter Høeg